WEBVTT - How the Giants Plan to Win Again: Buster Posey on Development, Leadership and the Road Ahead 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.960 Now back to murphin markets on the Sports Leader, streaming 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.399 live on the sports Leader dot com at knb r 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.000 V sports Leader app. 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.880 You know, first and foremost is a tremendous honor. But 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.200 you know, getting getting to go on with with Panic, Crawl, 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.840 Fell and Pablo, I think makes it even more special 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.200 for me. I mean, just a ton of great memories 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.480 with those guys on the field and off the field, 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.720 winning a lot of games, championship to do it with 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.600 those guys makes it all the more special. But yeah, 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:38.880 tremendous honor, some great, great giants that are on that wall, 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.559 and uh super super humble to go up there myself. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.159 So I'm looking forward to that this weekend. 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:52.840 Buster Posey, you're president of Baseball Operations. Earlier this morning 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.280 right here on the Murph and Marcus Show with my 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:59.400 man John Dickinson filling in for Murf today and tomorrow, 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.360 and that was Buster Posey talking about the Wall of 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:06.640 Fame ceremony going on this weekend this Saturday against the 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:12.600 Detroit Tigers. Game starts at excuse me, ceremony starts at 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.720 three pm on Saturday. We will have live coverage here 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:20.520 on the sports Leader starting at two five should be 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.200 a fun weekend down at the ballpark with Brandon Belt, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:29.240 Brandan Crawford, Joe Panic, Pablo Ceneval, and Buster Posey all 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.479 going on the Hall of Fame together. That's one hell 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.039 of a draft class, one hell of a Hall of 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.200 Fame class to go on the wall together with jad. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.240 Well, and it makes sense to have all of them 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.960 go together when you look at the homegrown infield and 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:48.600 obviously Panic around for the final championship in twenty fourteen, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.960 and you have Crawford and Belt who were a part 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.480 of the two championships in twelve and fourteen, and Buster 0:01:55.600 --> 0:02:00.240 obviously the headliner and part of the leader of all 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.000 three of those teams that won in twenty ten, twelve, 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.480 and fourteen. But at the end of it all, it 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.120 was the homegrown infield and adding Pablo Sandoval to that 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:10.920 mix as well, who was one of the guys who 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:15.600 was there for all three in different roles in all three, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.920 but apart obviously of all three. So it makes a 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.919 hell of a lot of sense to have those guys 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:20.800 all go in together. 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.000 Yeah, it truly is a cool story and it kind 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.160 of makes you disconnect from the struggles of this season 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.040 a little bit and reconnect with the teams that I 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.040 know a lot of Giants fans fell in love with, 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.840 and a reason why fans are so passionate and a 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.720 reason why this fan base was referred to as the 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.359 lunatic fringe for so long. And we just had Tim 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.359 Flannery on our show the other day. He's going to 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.080 be down here this week and with Jake Peevey, I 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.440 know Bochi's gonna be in town and a bunch of 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.520 other Giants, So it should be a party down at 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:49.760 the ballpark starting this Saturday. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:50.080 JD. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.840 Yeah, be a lot of fun amid even a disappointing 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.560 season for the Giants on the field here in twenty 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:01.120 twenty six. It's funny to think back to and I 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.600 do this often when you reflect about the championship teams, 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.600 but it's just the different the things that were the 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.960 same about each of the three, but the things that 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.760 were different. And Pablo made me think about it because 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.800 he goes from somebody that was a bench player that 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.800 had fallen out of favor essentially in twenty ten, to 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.320 somebody who's hitting three home runs in a World Series 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.560 game of Justin Company, and two of them off with 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:32.000 Justin Verlander and then the guy that catches basically the 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.960 last out of the dynasty or did catch the last 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:36.800 out of the dynasty that you know, we didn't know 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.720 it was going to end them, but in hindsight, obviously 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.920 we do know it that it essentially ended on that 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.120 night when when the Giants won in Kansas City. But 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.520 it's also the fact that you know, Lensicam in ten 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.480 was the ace, and Cain in twelve was the ace, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.440 and in fourteen it was Bumgarner. So all three of 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:59.440 them in different years were the headliner as others potentially 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.600 you knowed or the pecking order changed through all three 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.360 of the runs, and different closers in all three of 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.920 the runs. And so those are kind of where my 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.400 mind goes on some of these some of these days 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.160 where the ceremony of the past starts to creep in 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:13.560 a little bit. 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.680 Yeah, and you think about some of that magic of 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.200 Giants baseball, or as my good friend Paula Maxws say 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.080 all the time, the particles surrounding those teams, and it's 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.200 just something about those guys, those guys going on the 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.279 Wall of Fame and even the pitchers you mentioned, And 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.200 then we get to the bullpen and the core four 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.520 four And you think about the last decade of Giants baseball, 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.159 where there hasn't been a lot of success outside of 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.640 twenty twenty one when they won one hundred and seven games, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.080 and guess who was leading the charge, Buster Posey, Brandon Crawford, 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.359 Brandon Bell, damn near all having career years. It was 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.520 still those guys from that dynasty bringing you the most 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:46.800 success that we've seen over. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.039 The last five years, no doubt. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.920 And I you know, kind of finishing that that point, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:55.360 like the three different clutch second basemen basically that we're 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.839 you know, the three the three different leadoff hitters and 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.520 center fielders in all three of those from Andros Torres 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.000 to Angel Pagan to greg Or Blanco being such a 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.360 huge part of the team as well. So yeah, it's 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.520 fun to reflect, but you're right, you reflect, you appreciate, 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:19.880 But then it also shows the standard that has been missed, 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.800 not only in terms of championships, but just in terms 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.400 of meaningful contention over. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.039 The course of the last And I think that's why 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.120 there was so much excitement when Buster Posey decided to 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.880 take on this role as President of Baseball Operations because 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.080 I remember the conversations we were having, We're like, why 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.120 would Buster want this? Why would he want even to 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.080 take on a job where he could end up with 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.160 egg on his face and potentially stain his legacy. Now, 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.320 I think there's two completely different things when you talk 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.839 about the legacy of bus or Posey. There's the player 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.760 that's going on the Wall of Fame this weekend and 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.839 will most likely be going into the actual Hall of 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.640 Fame next summer. Then you can look at what he's 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.279 done so far as the president of Baseball Operations. But 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.359 Busser told us when he took that job that he 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.080 came back because he wanted to win, because he wanted 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.720 San Francisco to get back to that standard. Now, obviously 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.119 this team has not lived back up to that standard yet, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.800 But I'm wondering how much of that fan base has 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.760 kind of wavered on that optimism after these last two seasons. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.960 I mean, it's hard not to based on the results, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.160 but I still think, big picture playing this is year 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.240 two of bus or Posey. I don't think you can 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.400 pull the plug and move forward to a different plan, 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.200 because this is the guy you want leading the charge. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.039 From his experience as a player, we just haven't seen 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.719 it translate as much as President of Baseball Operation. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:32.720 No, we haven't. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.400 But again, you can see what the plan is, even 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.760 if you could debate whether they should have just blatantly 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.120 stated that this is what the plan's going to be. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.360 And look, I get it. They were trying. What were 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.080 the goals a couple of years ago? 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.280 It was try to come up with the you know, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:56.560 some veteran players that are known in baseball to get 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.760 the fan base more excited than maybe what was deemed 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:01.400 to be. And I don't like using this term, but 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.040 more of the no name type guys that varhan Ziety 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.160 was was adept at being able. 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.760 To find, like the constant platoon players and bullpen arms. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.840 And I get it. I was frustrated somebody covering the 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.960 team showing up and not knowing who was pitching that day, 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:17.760 didn't know if John Brebia was going to be the 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.880 for the third time in a row. Yeah, like that 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.120 led to some of the frustration for the fan base. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.960 Essentially, and I know this is not apples to apples, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.440 but essentially you had it became an issue of you'd 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.200 rather see Willie Domas or Matt Chapman than a Donovan Solano. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.880 I mean, that's funny because I remember far Haun at 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.960 one of his first pressers, he asked a question, do 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:39.960 you want to have players you can root for? You 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.520 do you want to win games? And I think a 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.080 lot of the answers were, like, we want to root 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.680 for these players, we also want to win games, but 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.160 like there is that special connection between the fan base 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:49.560 and the players here in San Francisco. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.760 And I think that if there was a miscalculation of 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.600 the far Han hiring, I think and now we're going 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.160 way back, and obviously it's you know, this is coming on, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.280 but I think it shows in the way that they 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.640 corrected off of far Han is that I think there 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:12.200 was a miscalculation that if they won, it truly wouldn't 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.520 have mattered, you know, the who the players were or 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.440 how they were acquired, or if they were shuffled through 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.880 the minor leagues, if they you know, essentially, though, I 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.440 think the Giants fan base would rather in some ways 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.520 again root for Willie Adamas instead of Lamont Wade Junior. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.840 And that's no shade to Lamont in the year that 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.800 he had in twenty twenty one, but it's that it's 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.520 those kinds of things that I think led to the 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.720 shift in well, we want to get some guys that 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.640 people know, and we want to get some guys that 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.720 you're gonna you know, we're going to be in the 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.640 lineup every day and they're going to be playing. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.120 So more of a fanfare for a Jungle Lee versus 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.960 a Darren Ruff, even though Rouff was on the move. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.439 Was an awesome moment. And look, it worked in twenty 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:56.920 twenty one with a lot of those pieces. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.439 You want a whole lot of ball games, and twenty 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.840 twenty one was I think the tell because in essence, 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:03.400 and I don't know how much of this was COVID 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.800 because if you remember, like you couldn't really go to 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.600 the ballpark initially at all, and then it was I 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.000 think opening day, maybe nine thousand fans at twenty one, 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:15.720 and ZIP tied together and stuff progressively opened to the 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.920 point where by the end it was it was full 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.600 in the playoff series against the Dodgers and all of that. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:25.880 But it was interesting because in twenty like everybody got 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:30.400 caught up in twenty one at the end, but when 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.920 that team was mid in twenty two, even after getting 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.400 off to a decent start, immediately it was like a snooze. 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.680 It was like a dial tone, like people were not 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.280 into that team as mid. So if you were going 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:43.719 to have a team that people were going to get 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.719 excited about, and it was gonna be a bunch of 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.600 again don't like this term, but i'll use it, no 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.959 name guys, then it would have to win at an 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.280 elite level to capture the attention of everybody. And again 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.440 I also think it they said that they set the 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.599 bar a little too higher, thought maybe they were a 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.000 little too close to actually being contenders, and then it 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:09.559 led to mid mid mid and people becoming apathetic about 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.319 the lack of sort of name brand talent. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.880 Yeah, and I think that's why people embrace the twenty 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.120 twenty one Giants so much, not just because they won 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.400 one hundred and seven games, but also look at the 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.720 three guys leading the charge, the guys that we started 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.319 this conversation talking about, Brandon Bell, Brandon Crawford and Buster Posey. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.319 You still had those guys, Buster steps away. You stop 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:28.959 winning ball games and all of a sudden, people don't 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:30.280 want to show up to the ballpark. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:34.120 And homegrown talent, especially homegrown talent with Buster Posey as 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.800 your lead executive. Hits a little different than both of 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.360 these other ways that the Giants have tried to go. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.840 Yeah, no question about it. It's taking up those three 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.640 players from twenty twenty one. It's twenty twenty six, and 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.040 this weekend they are going on the Wall of Fame, 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.400 which I believe is going to make an appearance on 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.800 our weekend sports calendar, brought to you by Surfside. It's 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.360 not a Seltzer. 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And it 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.040 sounds like the Rams might be getting a bit of reinforcement. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.600 Not sure if you saw this story yesterday, but the 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:41.400 La Rams held a tryout, yes, I'm using air quotes, 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:46.040 a tryout yesterday with Aaron Donald. Here was Sean McVay 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.360 sitting down yesterday with Greg Rosenthal talking about the brand 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.160 new prospect in town down in LA and how Aaron 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.800 Donald's tryout went with the La Rams. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.839 I couldn't help, but no, like right before we started, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.720 I hope you're even aware of this, Like the NFL 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.920 Transaction Wire had Aaron Donald working out with the Rams today, 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:06.200 which I. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:07.640 Guess had come across as a tryout. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.120 It did come across a tryout that we've ever had. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.240 You think you could make the team? I think you 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:15.840 can make them. Got a shot. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.440 Yeah, that was honestly our way of being able to 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.320 get a workout with him within the you know, parameters 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:22.720 of of what's necessary. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.720 But give Smith said, it's the greatest tryout he's ever had. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.600 Great football coach. I don't know if Sean would be 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.000 the best poker player in. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.920 The world, but Aaron Donald, but yeah, you know what, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.960 I've never claimed to be a good poker player either. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.840 You've got plenty to do here. Appreciate the time having 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.000 Greg and're coming on. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:45.840 Thirty five year old Aaron Donald, contemplating coming out of retirement, 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.880 had a tryout yesterday with the la Rams JD. What 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.520 do you think does he have a shot to make 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.280 the roster? I would say he's got a shot to 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:54.040 make the roster. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.600 My goodness that that is pretty funny to think that, yeah, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.680 that's the procedural move that would have to be made, 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.560 and to see that pop up. I know people religiously 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.240 will be checking that transaction wire at times. Even I'll 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.320 do it. It's the best way to kind of see 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.440 what teams are maybe doing. But Yeah, to see Aaron 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.160 Donald pop up on that is pretty freaking hilarious. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.400 Yeah, and I've bought into the rumors about Aaron Donald 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:22.000 returning the moment that the Miles Garrett trade happened. Now, 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.680 Murf and I have discussed whether or not he would 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.360 play Week one down in Australia, or if he'd kind 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.360 of just hang out for half the season and maybe 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.760 rejoin the Rams during their bye week. But with this tryout, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.840 with him being seen on the practice field a couple 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.960 weeks ago, it sounds like it's all but a done 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.080 deal that Aaron Donald will come out of retirement, sign 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.400 with the La Rams and possibly be on that one 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.120 day flight down to Australia. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.960 Yeah, it sounds like it's happening, and we're sitting I know, 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.280 you set the table for what's to come a week 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.560 from tonight at Levi's with the game against the Titans 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.320 in the first preseason game and then the forty nine 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.320 ers having the two away games on consecutive thursdays after that, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.160 we're five weeks away. Today is the five It is 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:09.520 five weeks from today, thirty five days from the opener 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.480 in Australia, so it is getting close. And yeah, it 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.000 sounds like Aaron Donald is going to be a part 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:18.080 of another just another just another talent that the forty 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.680 nine ers are going to have to overcome in that game. 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.360 Now, let me ask a quick question on Aaron Donald. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.040 After taking a year off, even when he retired, he 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.160 was still one of the best players in the entire league, 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.520 not even outside of the defensive line. But we have 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.840 gotten some pushback from forty nine Er fans to say, 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.960 go back and look at the box score against the Rams. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.040 Aaron Donald traditionally does not have huge games, and I'd 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.600 say you're right, You're absolutely correct. Chris Forster has put 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.000 together a pretty good game plan with the double and 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.600 triple teams that they were able to put on Aaron 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.640 Donald and to maybe slow him down for being a 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.520 game record. But can you still have that same strategy 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.800 when now you have Miles Garrett on the outside, maybe 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:56.960 the biggest monster in the league that just broke the 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.640 sack record last year like JD. This feels like it's 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.240 gonna have to be a different strategy and a different 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.640 version of this Rams defensive line. If Donald does come 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.800 back to pairrot with Miles Garrett. It does, but again, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.960 the numbers of the numbers. The forty nine Ers have 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.280 historically done well against Aaron Donald, whether it's been the 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.760 scheme or trying to run at him directly limit his 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.320 ability to produce. It is a completely different freaking animal 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.160 when you have Miles Garrett on the outside, There's no 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.800 question about it, and guys that can wreck shop, you know, 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:34.399 interior and on the outside, like the Rams are freaking loaded. 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.879 We know that, we know that to be true, and 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.440 so this is going to be an unbelievable task that 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.160 Kyle Shanahan company are going to have to figure out 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.200 for that game coming up thirty five days from tonight. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.000 Man Miles Garrett single handedly had more sex than the 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.520 entire forty nine Ers defense last year, and now, of 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.120 course that comes with an asterix without Nick Bosa back 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.360 on the field. We'll get an injury update on Nick 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:58.840 Bosa and all the forty nine Ers in just a 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.919 few minutes here with at Mayoko right around eight fifty. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.440 But moving on to our next piece of cooler content, 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.880 John Joe Curley was telling me about this Philly fan who, oh, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.680 by the way, is enjoying Luisa rise right now went 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.000 deep last night for the Phillies. That's after he had 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.480 a couple of RBI knocks in his first game in 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.199 a Philly, Jersey where he is a Philly fan that 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.879 apparently won an auction and got the opportunity to call 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.560 an inning on the Phillies radio network. Walt laid on us. 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:29.960 We are had to do the third inning Phillies on 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.159 top two to water. We're pleased to welcome Lewis Kobb 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:34.800 from Medford. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.160 Lakes, New Jersey. He is our Phillies fantastic auction winner. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.760 He outfid the competition to spend an inning and do 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.680 some play by play in the booth, and Lewis welcome, 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.800 glad to have you here. Thank you Schott. It's ay 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.560 thrilled the p here. It's all flowing drain to be 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.840 in the Phillies broadcast booth. So here we go. A 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.639 painter of the first pitch to our tange that's in 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:57.359 there for strike. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:57.560 Win. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.439 Cob fills with two in the bottom of the second 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.200 to take the lead. As we start the top of 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:10.000 the third, payter delivers it's bounced foul towards the Etillies 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:16.520 dug out and they count one and one. Deli's winning 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.960 the first two games of this series, one more to 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.080 go tomorrow night, and then the three games set with 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.600 the Blue Jays over the weekend. Payter delivers. It's a 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:31.520 check swing. It's a called strike three. He got him, 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:33.080 so our teams down. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.000 And Lewis, you spent your life as. 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.600 A firefighter, police officer. 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:46.240 Neither of those things. Just gusing. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.960 I've been a substitute teacher in recent years for Nita 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:55.560 School and Lakerland. There's a pitch. It's line over shortstop 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.800 of base hit for Dylan Cruz and he reached his 0:19:58.800 --> 0:19:59.679 first base safely. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.719 I want out thing, bro first of all, round of applause. 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.080 You're telling me that was a fan with no experience, Walter, 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.080 I mean that guy sounded like you could have been 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.280 a cousin of John Miller. 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.360 Yeah, he was phenomenal. I was still listening to him 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:17.720 back here. It was six minutes. 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.960